More oneline education

In Wired magazine (June 2009, UK edition) there is a good list of sites for finding online education. It is becoming more and more obvious that information is available for free and that is extending even to higher education. For the industrious and curious soul there are plenty of ways to keep informed without paying now astronimical university fees.

ocw.it.edu is the “source that sparked the open courseware movement”. When the Massaschusetts Institute of Technology starts putting its professors online for free others start to listen (and learn).

academicearth.org hosts thousands of video lections from top scholars around the world.

owercommonns.org is a “major hub” for Open Educational Resources for Brittish institions and the Genome Reserarch Instititue in the US.

steeple.org.uk hosts podcasts from many top British institutions including Oxford and Cambridge.

royalsociety.tv is the host of its science lectures.

And please don’t forget the most recognized of all, ted.com, where you can hear and see lectures from some of the top new thinkers around the world.